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Rachel Walden: “They don't want their coal plants shut.”

Featuring: Rachel Walden, Republican | Arizona Corporation Commission

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Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission

Published | Video Starts at 41:34

And we talk about the rural communities and, yeah, they don't have the growth and they don't have the income that Maricopa county has. And what we hear from them is They don't want their coal plants shut. We started off this panel talking about costs and historical costs that were, that were paying back. But what I've heard about renewables is that we have to invest more, we have to spend more, we have to buy more batteries. (41:34–41:37)

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Asserts that rural communities do not want their coal plants shut.

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